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Depends, A unit with its entire command apparatus wiped out in a head hunter could be at 95% strength and next t useless.  Another unit could have lost 80 of strength across the board.

In regards to the SLDF post Coup their losses could not be made up because of political realities. The High Council really didn't agree on a way forward and sought to recruit troops for themselves and not the SLDF. The Terran Hegemony and the Periphery were a mess with resources needed to rebuild vital infrastructure. As a result Star League units would have to make do and as I point out in FM Terran Republic 2785 that wasn't easy. It was an aging force that had seen constant conflict since 2765. It would have been difficult for the SLDF to even maintain their post war size without House support which was not coming. So some kind of reorganization had to happen or units would have been left understrength.

Quote from: Takiro on June 29, 2015, 04:20:57 PM

In regards to the SLDF post Coup their losses could not be made up because of political realities. The High Council really didn't agree on a way forward and sought to recruit troops for themselves and not the SLDF. The Terran Hegemony and the Periphery were a mess with resources needed to rebuild vital infrastructure. As a result Star League units would have to make do and as I point out in FM Terran Republic 2785 that wasn't easy. It was an aging force that had seen constant conflict since 2765. It would have been difficult for the SLDF to even maintain their post war size without House support which was not coming. So some kind of reorganization had to happen or units would have been left understrength.

This I can understand and also why they went that way during the war and after it but my question was much how much losses must they take before being disbanded.

it would also depend on how popular the unit is with high command, a popular unit could drop to 3% and be rebuilt while a unpopular unit could drop to 70% and be disbanded.

Units likely earned their reputation through this period of time so I doubt you'd see a ton of politics play into decisions to keep a division on the rolls. For this reason recent performance probably had more to do with rebuilding a damaged unit rather than traditional placements like the Black Watch.

Liberation of Terra covers it.  nominally a unit has to be knocked to 50% or below to be stricken from the records and it's assets transferred to units nominally in need of replacements but still in that effective definition.  I am sure there were some units that were preserved and given life support vis a vie replacements for thier reputation, meanwhile the ones that were likely to be stricken first are ones like the Divisions financed by the Houses (Marik, Davion and Steiner did so, not sure about Kurita, Liao could not afford it)

we should also remember that numerous Auxiliaries were made from Volunteers from the Houses, Periphery Volunteers, and Amaris Opposition in the RWR, those units lived and died day to day with almost no paperwork of thier existence.  Hell thier identifiers were probably "Task Force X"

the big question is Royal Divisions, arguably the symbol of the Hegemony, and whether the kept to the "All present are Hegemony Natives" requirment, or if replacements began flowing from house and Periphery oriented forces.